SDGs

Women artisans from Barara village in Gujarat’s Patan district doing traditional embroidery.
Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

FROM THE FIELD: The Indian women weaving a digital web

21 February 2021
Asia Pacific

Hundreds of thousands of Indian women are learning to market themselves and sell products online, with the support of a digital literacy project managed by the World Bank.

A teacher explains how to use the application that will allow students to access educational material.
El Origen Foundation

First Person: The Colombian youth fighting for digital education for all

20 February 2021
Americas

Tania Rosas, a Colombian education advocate from an afro-indigenous background, is hoping to improve learning outcomes for disadvantaged communities in her country, with a digital application tailored to their specific needs.

Sylvia Chiinda has boosted her income by farming goats.
UNDP Zambia

FROM THE FIELD: The goats helping Zambians to reach economic independence

20 February 2021
Africa

In Zambia, where the climate crisis is making it increasingly difficult to earn a living, goat-rearing is being seen as a possible route to a better livelihood, and economic resilience.

Young children in conflict-affected Bol, Chad study science at school.
UNICEF Chad/Nancy Ndal-lah

FROM THE FIELD: Teaching Chad’s scientists of the future

9 February 2021
Africa

The study of science could have a “transformational” impact on young people living in different conflict areas across the world according to the UN’s Education Cannot Wait programme.

Americans spent more than $17 billion on 2020 Super Bowl parties.
Unsplash/WFP

FROM THE FIELD: Chicken wings, hunger and the Super Bowl

6 February 2021
Global

The amount of money spent on food and beverages to enjoy, perhaps, the United States’ most high-profile annual sporting event, adds up to more than twice the global budget of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), according to the agency.

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is supporting women's economic empowerment in the world's 47 Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
UNCDF

Fair Finance: The women entrepreneurs lifting communities out of poverty

31 January 2021
Global

Helping women start and grow businesses in the world’s poorest countries is a path to lifting them and their families out of poverty, the high-profile businesswoman, and new UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Goodwill Ambassador Sonia Gardner, has told UN News, in the second of our two part series this weekend, on the role the financial sector can play in reducing inequality.

A family from the Hmong ethnic minority in Vietnam.
© UNICEF/Truong Viet Hung

Fair Finance: How can the global inequality gap be narrowed?

30 January 2021
Global

Reducing inequality is one of the UN’s flagship goals, but the gulf between rich and poor worldwide, remains persistently high. In the first of a special two-part series on the financial sector this weekend, Hiro Mizuno, the newly-appointed UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments, explains how the industry can help to create a fairer, more equitable world.

Men install solar panels for a hospital in Yemen.
UNDP Yemen

‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy

2 January 2021
Global

In a bid of optimism for the new year, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) expressed confidence that clean energy would grow in 2021. 

A girl carries a basket of fruits through a flooded street in Cotonou, a large port city in Benin.
UNICEF/Oliver Asselin

People, planet on ‘collision course’, warns UN Development Programme

15 December 2020
Global

Countries must redesign their development pathways to reduce damage to the environment and the natural world, or risk stalling progress for humanity overall, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has warned in a major new report. 

A Palestinian herder takes sheep to a rehabilitated cistern for water.
©FAO/Marco Longari

Address water scarcity ‘immediately and boldly’, urges UN agriculture agency chief 

26 November 2020

More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report launched on Wednesday.